We’d do it just for that alone. The rest of the procedure is to flash a DFU USB bootloader into the Arduino, then load up the flash-programmer code. Your former Arduino is now capable of ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

Since you have an AVR USBasp programmer in hand,is it possible to upload bootloader and/or program code to Arduino using the same USB asp programmer, instead of the proven methods described earlier?

Arduino Uno microcontroller Custom shield with relays, transistors, power supplies, and an operational amplifier USB cable for programming the Arduino Laptop with Visual Studio Code and PlatformIO ...